Preferred method for offering gift certificates?

[Aimee]

Hello!

I have a customer that is currently running Event Espresso. She would like to start offering gift certificates, but Event Espresso does not have any sort of functionality to offer this. I would like to know, since as I understand it, The Events Calendar *does* work with other gift certificate software/add ons (i.e. WooCommerce), but does not offer the functionality itself. What is the preferred (best working) method for selling and redemption of gift certificates through The Events Calendar?

I’ve looked through the forum and some people use a bundle of The Events Calendar, WooTickets, WooCommerce, and Gift Certificate Pro by Ignite Woo. I’d like to know if that’s the preferred method or if there’s other plugins that might do it better.

Thank you!

[Jennifer]

Hi Aimee,

Thanks for checking out our plugins!

You are correct that Event Tickets Plus does not come with any gift certificate functionality built-in, but it does integrate with WooCommerce. Tickets are essentially WooCommerce simple products, so they typically work pretty well with WooCommerce extensions.

Depending on exactly how you need things to work, you might be able to get away with using WooCommerce coupons to create discount codes that you can use as gift certificates, but otherwise I would recommend taking a look at YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards (free), Smart Coupons, or WooCommerce Gift Certificates Pro. I haven’t tested these out myself, so you would definitely need to do so to make sure that you can get things integrated and working the way you need to.

We do offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so if you’d like to do some testing with Event Tickets Plus and some of these options, feel free to do so! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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